Changes in passenger and freight mobility, 2000-2012
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Total passenger mobility (measured in kilometres travelled) increased by about 4% in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2012. Stabilisation was seen after 2007, in particular in relation to car use. A similar pattern was seen in goods transport by road.
| 2000 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 2 | 2011 2 | 2012 2 | |
| billion km travelled | |||||||
| Passenger mobility | 177 | 184 | 183 | 183 | 183 | 184 | 184 |
| Car driver | 86 | 93 | 94 | 94 | 94 | 96 | 96 |
| Car passenger | 46 | 45 | 43 | 42 | 41 | 41 | 40 |
| Public transport | 22 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 23 |
| Slow traffic (mopeds, bicycles, pedestrians) | 17 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 | 19 |
| Other | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Train | 15 | 16.3 | 17 | 17.1 | 17.2 | 17.6 | 17.9 |
| Bus, tram, metro | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.4 | 6.5 | 6.7 | 7 | |
| Air travel (million passenger journeys) | 40.8 | 50.5 | 50.4 | 46.5 | 48.7 | 54.1 | 55.8 |
| billion ton-km | |||||||
| Goods transport | 107 | 122 | 123 | 106.4 | 113.9 | 118.0 | 115.2 |
| Road | 48.9 | 55.2 | 56.3 | 53.6 | 55.8 | 55.8 | 53.9 |
| Inland waterways | 41.3 | 45 | 44.4 | 35.6 | 40.2 | 44.7 | 43.7 |
| Rail | 4.6 | 7.2 | 7 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 6.4 | 6 |
| Pipeline | 12.5 | 14.5 | 14.8 | 11.6 | 11.9 | 11.1 | 11.6 |
| Total freight transhipment on Dutch territory (million ton) | 1,486 | 1,779 | 1,776 | 1,625 | 1,667 | 1,707 | 1,691 |
| whose Air freight transshipment | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| whose Sea freight transshipment | 424.5 | 536.8 | 560.4 | 509.5 | 568.0 | 577.5 | 585.5 |
| Source: OVG / MON / OViN, NS, KpVV, KiM, WROOV / NEA, Airports, CBS 1 Because this is a sample, the volume of the annual mobility rate has a statistical uncertainty. This uncertainty has increased over the last 15 years steadily because the sample size of the OVG / MON / OViN decreased. The figures indicate a trend and not a hard figure from year to year. 2 Italic: provisional figures. | |||||||
Changes in mobility
Total passenger mobility (measured in kilometres travelled) increased by about 4% in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2012. Stabilisation or a slight decline was seen after 2007, in particular in relation to car use. This stabilisation was partly due to the decrease in the number of kilometres travelled by car passengers. The number of kilometres travelled by car drivers and train passengers grew each after 2007, though this also levelled off.
As far as passenger mobility is concerned, cars are still the predominant transport type, responsible for 74% of the total number of kilometres travelled. Bicycle, moped and pedestrian kilometres mainly relate to short journeys and make up a total of 10% of the total number of kilometres travelled. Just 13% of the total kilometres travelled are by train, bus, tram or metro. Public transport is mainly used in the rush hour and for travel within, between, and to and from the larger cities.
Freight transport (measured in ton-kilometres) grew by 8% between 2000 and 2012. Following strong growth up to 2008, a sharp decrease was seen in 2009, then recovery in 2010. Freight transport is more sensitive to speculative fluctuations than passenger mobility. Particularly sensitive to speculation are freight transport by inland water, rail and air.
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Reference of this webpage
CLO (2016). Changes in passenger and freight mobility, 2000-2012 (indicator 2141, version 02, ), www.clo.nl. Statistics Netherlands (CBS), The Hague; PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Hague; RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven; and Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen.